Arbitrarily lowering the regulated price of the copper network would kneecap the competitive price umbrella for fiber broadband service thus destroying the economic return on investment case needed to fund the fiber upgrade?
For decades Uncle Sam regulated the price of natural gas.
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As they coalesce, they transform drug manufacturers into price-regulated utilities.
Electric and natural gas utilities that provide partial (or full) service to consumers are heavily regulated by government agencies, which set the price utilities charge customers for electric and gas service, the terms of that service, capital budgets and construction plans and so forth.
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When airlines were still regulated, anti-Ramsey regulators sharply raised the average price of flying.
When the price of oil and natural gas was highly regulated, back in the 1970s, petroleum production failed to respond to rising prices.
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The Affordable Care Act brings sweeping changes to the health insurance industry with most large plans like Wellpoint and their family of Blue Cross plans competing to provide quality and price-competitive benefit plans on state-regulated exchanges to offer benefits to millions of uninsured Americans when subsidies for individuals and small businesses kick in in 2014.
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It distributes a substantial portion of emission allowances to regulated, local distribution companies and helps to protect electricity customers from unnecessary price rises.
Europe's labour and capital markets remain much more regulated than those in America: and European economies are now paying the price for that.
Power generation operates in a free market (subject to all the usual rules on safety etc) and the price which the grid can charge for carrying the power is regulated.
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While tradable inflation moderated slightly, non-tradable and regulated prices such as energy accelerated once again, on the back of service price increases.
They are federally regulated and take bids collectively from buyers and sellers of electricity and subsequently establish a price.
In a 1948 case dealing with the World War II era Emergency Price Control Act, the Supreme Court held that the government can require individuals engaged regulated activity to maintain and produce certain types of records.
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In just a few chapters, he outlines the forces that brought the world to the brink of a bust: a house-price bubble boosted by runaway mortgage lending in the rich world, particularly America, a lightly regulated global financial system that found ever-more creative ways to speculate on rising house prices, and macroeconomic policymaking that was far too laid back about the dangers posed by asset-price bubbles.
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